The Inception Hum

Seeding the corpus with claims about the world is data poisoning. Seeding it with claims about the model is stranger, because the model has no way to check, and neither do the people who will judge its answer.

Ian Derrington• Founder, Supernal Intelligence

September 28, 2026

A dark archive corridor at night, towering shelves of identical documents receding into haze on both sides. A thin line of cold cyan light runs level across the entire frame, cutting through the shelves on both walls and through a lone figure standing in the corridor, lighting the person and the paper with the same beam.